Immortal Dick Cheney Replica Now Lives at the Capitol

Dick Cheney is going to live forever — or at least his bust will. A marble effigy of the former vice-president was officially unveiled at the Capitol onThursday.

Former president George W. Bush stopped by to relay a message from his dad: “Send my best regards to old iron-ass.” (President George H.W. Bush was joking about comments he made about his son’s running mate that were recently published in the biography Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush: “He just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with. Justiron-ass.”)

The former Daily Show host didn’t attend Cheney’s event — light ribbing was the only criticism on the invite list, judging from Biden and Bush’s remarks — but he was at the Capitol trying to gather support for long-term legislation that would help with the medical costs of 9/11 first responders. “We have a bunch of first responders outside freezing their asses off,” he said during a press conference, which several New York legislators attended. “Our country’s last responders, our country’s worst responders, are inside nice and comfy and cozy, and probably havingsoup.”